"Sal loves the water. All day, he thinks about it: being out there, just him and the waves, alone. More than anything else, he wants a boat. And he knows just what it would look like. So he decides to build it himself. It isn't long before everyone in town starts sharing advice. But Sal doesn't need their help. He knows just what he's building. And he does it! Except... he forgets one crucial detail -- that no project, big or small, can be launched...

A cumulative tale about Jack, a boy who builds a treehouse as a group of birds and animals makes their own home in the same tree.

Froggy and his friends build a treehouse, while avoiding help from his little sister, Frogilina.

"When their dad forgets his lunch box on his way to the construction site, a young brother and sister set out to take it to him, and along their way witness all the noisy, exciting action of a build site in the city."--Publisher's description.

A builder sketches a project, then gets to work with his friend digging, lifting, and sawing.

"There's lots of noise and excitement involved in building a library! Preschoolers will clamor to take a close look. Award-winning duo Sally Sutton and Brian Lovelock are back with another rhythmic read-aloud full of bustling illustrations and sound words that beg kids to join in. Thonk! Clonk! Clap! The team behind Roadwork and Demolition returns to the construction site, where big machines and busy workers dig, hoist, and hammer away."--

In a messy yard, a team of tools gets organized, then spends a busy day building a shed.

As a little boy watches his father, a bricklayer, work hard to build the city, both dream of building a house of their own.

Illustrations and easy-to-read, rhyming text follow a construction worker and her crew through a day of drilling, digging, crawling, and clanging.

"Jasper the fox and Ollie the sloth have a fort-building contest in their yard"--